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A bit context…while YT pitied the fate of all three shards, La Mu was her one true love. She grieved for him and was heart broken. (Later on in the book, when YQ reflected on his relationship with YT, he acknowledged that he could never replace La Mu in her heart). YQ retained the memories of all three shards, but wasn’t as forthcoming with his feelings initially as it was depicted in the show.

- YQ was burning the fire of jealousy in his heart, when he recalled a particular piece of memory in which La Mu and YT got really frisky. He couldn’t fathom what would have had happened, if La Mu didn’t stop YT from undressing him.

- YT got drunk and called out for La Mu. YQ responded in his place and kissed her. Even in her drunken state, YT wasn’t having it. She told him off, shouting “you don’t even have red hair”, got really angry and scratched his face! Soon after, YQ faced off CF in battle. The latter couldn’t help but to tease YQ about the wound on his face that looked like it was “done by a woman”.

- YT, who was 15 in the book, was bullied by a 600 years old heaven realm born student in class and fell over. She didn’t think much of it but YQ learned of the incident. YQ wasted no time to show up in front the bully’s family, made the bully’s grandfather fall over with the same technique, and left without further explanation. The family scrambled to figure out what happened, beat the bully to a pulp, and made him kneel in front of YT to apologize the next day.

- YQ pursued YT and tried to create all sorts of opportunities to be close to her. He showed up to teach in YT’s class, and was particularly partial to practice “hands on” teaching with her, which led her to think he was being perverted. She told her sister and CF about it via their wireless communication, while YQ got an earful standing outside of her room.

- YQ took advice from CF on how to pursue YT

If we had 80 episodes instead of 40, these funny bits from the book would probably make their way into the show, creating a smoother build up to the love confession.

For anyone who is into trailers and spoilers, this bilibili user always posts extended compilation, longer than what youku posts officially. For example, this 19 minutes long trailer for ep 21-22. Not subbed unfortunately.

http://b23.tv/GefB6ZT

In the book, You Qin was smart enough to figure out very quickly that Ye Tan was not Qin Kui. But he pitied her so instead of turning her in, he agreed with her that she could live out her life in the heaven realm under the condition she would preserve chastity after his demise (never be involved with anyone or remarry again), obey the rules of the heaven realm and cut all ties with the Void realm.

At one point, Ye Tan asked You Qin if he had ever thought of what his future wife would be, and proceeded to tell him what she had dreamed of, which was quite an eye opener for You Qin. First she wanted to find one who was handsome to please her eyes; AND she wanted to also find one who was advanced in his cultivation to beat up whoever she asked him to; AND she wanted to find another one with a lot of money to buy her whatever she wanted; AND lastly she wanted one more who was romantic and humorous to entertain her. She was adamant the one with good cultivation can beat up the rich one if he didn’t let her spend the money. At this point, You Qin angrily responded with his famous line about sealing the tomb to prevent the green light from emitting, insinuating her cheating ways were making him a cuckold.

Angry he may be, clearly he listened…

There were quite a few posts about the shards’ personalities. Thought I would share a bit context from the book that is missing in the show.

This could have served as a lovely promo for their collaboration “The guardians of the the lands” as dual MLs. Did they do this on purpose…

A couple of spoilers I just learned suggest the show deviates quite a bit from the book: one about the fate of the older sister and one about the relationship between Ye Tan and the Void. Maybe that’s how they could turn a Be to a HE. But I would still recommend the book. It was beautifully written, though it is a lot darker.

Did Ye Tan join the Void? Sorry I missed that. That’s a departure from the novel then. In the book, Ye Tan betrayed Shao Dian You Qin to join a powerful character who was against all four realms for his own survival. She believed that Shao Dian You Qin value the safety of the four realms above her life, and assumed he would kill the two sisters if he had found out about their origin. The book Ye Tan is a lot darker and wicked. She killed the second prince from the Void, and stabbed Shao Dian You Qin to retrieve something from him that was important to all four realms.

I hope so too. I am going to pause after the mortal realm arc and wait to find out about the show’s ending. I don’t think I can handle the same ending and the way it was executed twice back to back.

I thought the same and was caught off guard by the ending. Shao Dian You Qin is the fallen star…as for the sugar, I can only guess that is for the other couples and everyone else who settled into their peaceful life.

Based on the episodes so far and the trailer spoilers, it is heading the same direction but taking a different route here and there. For example, the flower didn’t descend upon the mother on the day of the twin’s birth. The three chards only needed to be willing to sacrifice themselves and not to fall in love with Ye Tan (they did nonetheless of course). The biggest discrepancy so far is that a major villain is missing, who should have showed up before the human realm arc started.

“The four realms cannot be sacrificed for Li Guang Ye Tan. But…Shao Dian You Qin can.” He found a way to fulfill his duty as the protector of the four realms but also stayed true to his love for Ye Tan, which ultimately saw him sacrificing his life. Like how it was referenced in the earlier episodes, he did everything to made sure Ye Tan hate him instead of grieving for him. She only found out later by accident and was heart broken. He was buried by Chao Feng at the stone house, where he felt he was closest to her.

It broke my heart. The first 2/3 was funny and sweet but the last 1/3 drained my tears. How the love story transpired and how it ended was too much. I don’t think I can stomach it if the same heart wrenching story line and ending are adapted. The show loosely follows the book but has changed a lot of details and plots. There is hope yet…

I thought the trailer was cheesy but I gave it a go because of the cast. Turned out the show is super funny and sweet, so I read the novel as well. The book is even more hilarious and steamy, so I finished it. But…

Whose name was written in the first decree handed to Xiao Se?

Who knows…the explosives don’t differentiate. 😑

After all that talk about preventing unnecessary blood shed, were those few, and only few, dead bodies caused by Lei Wu Jie’s explosives while trying to break up the fight ? 😂

They do seem to have better chemistry on screen.

Thanks!

After watching ep 30, I feel bad for him. What a traumatic childhood he must he had after his parents’ generation went full on King Arthur/Lancelot/Guinevere. No excuse to be so twisted though.